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Enclosure

Newtown (Cloonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Newtown, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Newtown (Cloonagh By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.53837, -8.31472
SMR number
LI024-202----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On flat former pasture now partially covered by a forestry plantation, abutting the townland boundary (a tributary of the Reask River) with Bohernagraga on the W. A ring-barrow (LI024-202----) is located 250m to WSW. The site is not depicted on OSi historic maps. The enclosure is partially visible as a curving earthwork surviving on the field surface on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and as a boundary between deciduous and coniferous trees on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 47 AP 4/3673) as a portion of an enclosure (ext. dims. c. 93m N-S; 74m E-W). The enclosure is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017 and 18/11/2018.

See attached Bruff survey image showing the ring-barrow labelled Bruff 47 and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 9 September 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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